> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://linkly.ai/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.
# Linkly AI Overview
> A local document search engine designed for AI. Transform your local documents into an AI-ready knowledge base, providing accurate context to AI anytime.
## Introduction to Linkly AI
Today's AI assistants are becoming increasingly powerful. In our work and studies, we need to provide more and more personal data, notes, knowledge, and documents to AI assistants. We need a simple, efficient, secure, and unified way to accomplish this.
Linkly AI was built to solve exactly this problem.
* Quickly index documents on your computer, creating full-text and outline indexes
* Find target documents through keywords and natural language
* Say goodbye to the outdated, inefficient folder-and-tag-based document management — just drop your documents on your computer, and Linkly AI will manage, find, and utilize them for you
* Currently supports PDF, DOCX, PPTX, EPUB, TXT, Markdown, HTML, Image (OCR) and more formats, with additional formats coming soon
* Delivers documents from your computer to AI assistants in an AI-friendly format, progressively
* Supports both MCP and CLI for use by AI Agents
* Provides official Skills to guide AI Agents in installation and usage
It is NOT:
* Another AI chat application
* Another note-taking or knowledge base software
You can continue chatting in your favorite chatbot, taking notes in your preferred note-taking app, and then connect everything to any AI assistant through Linkly AI.
No frequent imports or switching needed. It can run entirely locally, ensuring data security and privacy from the ground up.
Your computer is your best AI knowledge base.
## Who Is It For?
Linkly AI is built for all **knowledge workers**, **creators**, **students**, **researchers**, and **small teams** who struggle with managing large volumes of documents and fragmented knowledge.
If you have ever faced the following challenges, consider using Linkly AI:
PDFs, DOCX files, web pages, notes, and other documents scattered everywhere
— you want to find specific content but don't know where to start
Categorizing, tagging, creating folders — enormous effort with high
maintenance costs
Only able to search documents by file name from memory, while the content
you need is buried in the body of some file, and you only remember the gist
Content painstakingly collected and organized, yet impossible to integrate
or apply — resulting in massive "knowledge inventory" gathering dust.
These problems were never efficiently solved — until the advancement of AI technology.
Technologies like **LLM**, **RAG**, and **Agent** have effectively addressed the challenges of knowledge retrieval and utilization. However, when you try most **AI knowledge base** products on the market, you will find they still have the following issues:
Most AI knowledge bases, constrained by cost and use cases, rely on simple
RAG to search document fragments, yielding subpar results.
Most AI knowledge bases run in the cloud, requiring data to be uploaded
first. This easily leads to data privacy, security, and sovereignty issues.
Cloud-based AI knowledge bases, constrained by their own costs, can only
offer limited free capacity and restricted usage quotas. Users must pay for
subscriptions to unlock more capacity and features.
They compete with your existing AI assistants for attention. What was
supposed to solve knowledge fragmentation ends up requiring you to spend
effort on migration and synchronization first.
## Core Advantages
We are committed to building the best, universally accessible, and secure **full-text search tool**, as well as a powerful AI context layer that helps AI assistants better leverage users' local knowledge.
Index your documents in as little as 5 minutes, respond to queries within
0.5 seconds. Built for real-time AI workflows.
Your data never leaves your computer. No cloud uploads, no third-party
access.
Carefully crafted dedicated tools and Skills, naturally suited for daily use
by AI assistants and Agents.
\~20MB installer. Dynamically optimizes resource usage, runs quietly in the
background with minimal footprint.
Builds an outline for each document, progressively disclosing relevant
sections — AI no longer reads large documents blindly.
Powered by a local multilingual model, enabling semantic search across
hundreds of languages.
Offers CLI and MCP integration methods, plus official Skills — ready to
connect with any AI Agent out of the box.
Clean and beautiful interface with full keyboard operation support. Invoke
the search bar instantly with a global shortcut.